PRODUCTION HISTORY

2007-08
THYESTES, by LuciusAnnaeus Seneca, translation by Caryl Churchill, Directed by JoAnne Akalaitis
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW, by Joe Orton, directed by Sean Graney
TITUS ANDRONICUS , by William Shakespeare, Adapted and Directed by Charles Newell
CAROUSEL , Music by Richard Rodgers, Book & Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, Directed by Charles Newell, Music Direction by Doug Peck, Choreography by Randy Duncan, Co-Produced with Long Wharf Theatre
THE FIRST BREEZE OF SUMMER, by Leslie Lee, Directed by Ron OJ Parson

2006-07
RAISIN, based on Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun. Book by Robert Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg. Music by Judd Woldin. Lyrics by Robert Brittan. Directed by Charles Newell.
HOTEL CASSIOPEIA, by Charles Mee. Directed by Anne Bogart and performed by SITI Company.
UNCLE VANYA, by Anton Chekhov. Directed by Charles Newell. Presented at and in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art.
FLYIN' WEST, by Pearl Cleage. Directed by Ron OJ Parson.
ARCADIA, by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Charles Newell.

2005-06
MAN OF LA MANCHA, by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Lee, Lyrics by Joe Darion. Directed by Charles Newell.
MABOU MINES DOLLHOUSE, adapted and directed by Lee Breuer, based on the play by Henrik Ibsen. A Mabou Mines production Copresented by Court Theatre and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
FENCES, by August Wilson. Directed by Ron O.J. Parson.
THE GLASS MENAGERIE , by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Charles Newell.
LETTICE AND LOVAGE, by Peter Shaffer. Directed by Lucy Smith Conroy.

2004-05
WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, by Edward Albee. Directed by Charles Newell.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, by Oscar Wilde. Directed by Charles Newell.
QUARTET, by Heiner Müller. Directed by JoAnne Akalaitis.
TRAVESTIES, by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Charles Newell.
ENDGAME, by Samuel Beckett. Directed by Christopher Bayes.

2003-04
THE SOUND OF A VOICE. An Opera by Philip Glass. Libretto by David Henry Hwang. Music by Philip Glass. Directed by Robert Woodruff. Produced in association with American Repertory Theatre.
JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD. Book by Richard Nelson. Music by Shaun Davey. Lyrics conceived and adapted by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey. Directed by Charles Newell. Music Direction by Doug Peck.
GUYS AND DOLLS. Based on a Story and Characters of Damon Runyon. Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser. Book by Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows. Directed by Charles Newell. Music Direction by Doug Peck.
FRAULEIN ELSE . Translated and Adapted by Francesca Faridany. From the novella by Arthur Schnitzler. Directed by Lucy Smith Conroy.
CYRANO. Conceived and Directed by Jim Lasko and Charles Newell. From a new rhymed verse translation by Mickle Maher. Based on the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand. Co-produced by Court Theatre and Redmoon Theater.

2002-2003
PHÈDRE by Racine. Translated and adapted by Paul Schmidt. Directed and further adapted by JoAnne Akalaitis.
SCAPIN by Molière. Adapted by Shelley Berc and Andrei Belgrader. Music and Lyrics by Rusty Magee. Directed by Christopher Bayes.
JAMES JOYCE'S THE DEAD. Book by Richard Nelson. Music by Shaun Davey. Lyrics conceived and adapted by Richard Nelson and Shaun Davey. Directed by Charles Newell.
THE ROMANCE CYCLE: Parts 1 & 2. An adaptation of Shakespeare's Cymbeline and Pericles. Directed and adapted by Charles Newell.

2001-2002
MARY STUART by Friedrich Schiller.  Translated by Robert David MacDonald. Directed by JoAnne Akalaitis. Playnotes.
THE CHAIRS by Eugène Ionesco. Translated by Martin Crimp. Directed by Martin Platt.
COPENHAGEN by Michael Frayn. Directed by Michael Blakemore. Presented in collaboration with Broadway in Chicago.
HAMLET by William Shakespeare. Directed and adapted by Charles Newell.
MY FAIR LADY. Book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner. Music by Frederick Loewe. Directed by Gary Griffin.

2000-2001
THE INVENTION OF LOVE by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Charles Newell.
IN THE PENAL COLONY. Music by Philip Glass. Libretto by Rudolph Wurlitzer. Directed by JoAnne Akalaitis. A coproduction with A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle WA.
HAY FEVER by Noël Coward. Directed by Gary Griffin.
PIANO by Trevor Griffiths. Directed by Charles Newell.
TWELFTH NIGHT by Williams Shakespeare. Directed by Karin Coonrod.

1999-2000
LIFE'S A DREAM by Pedro Calderón de la Barca. Directed by JoAnne Akalaitis.
THE REAL THING by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Gary Griffin.
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS by Eugene O'Neill. Directed by Walter Dallas. A coproduction with Freedom Theatre, Philadelphia PA.
FAIR LADIES AT A GAME OF POEM CARDS by Chikamatsu Monzaemon. Adapted by Peter Oswald. Directed by Charles Newell.
THE LEARNED LADIES by Molière. Translated by Richard Wilbur. Directed by Charles Newell.

1998-1999
GROSS INDECENCY: THE THREE TRIALS OF OSCAR WILDE by Moisés Kaufman. Directed by Gary Griffin.
NORA by Ingmar Bergman. Directed by Charles Newell.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare. Directed by László Marton.
THE LITTLE FOXES by Lillian Hellman. Directed by Charles Newell.
LA BÊTE by David Hirson. Directed by Charles Newell.

1997-1998
THE IPHIGENIA CYCLE by Euripides. Translated by Nicholas Rudall. Directed by JoAnne Akalaitis.
PUTTING IT TOGETHER. Words and music by Stephen Sondheim. Directed by Gary Griffin.
THE SCHOOL FOR WIVES by Molière. Translated by Richard Wilbur. Directed by László Marton.
THE CHERRY ORCHARD by Anton Chekhov. Translated by Paul Schmidt. Directed by Charles Newell.
AN IDEAL HUSBAND by Oscar Wilde. Directed by Charles Newell.

1996-1997
OLD TIMES by Harold Pinter. Directed by Kim Rubinstein.
TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT by Graham Greene & Giles Havergal. Directed by Charles Newell.
CARMEN by Prosper Mérimée. Directed and translated by James Robinson.
THE PHILADELPHIA STORY by Philip Barry. Directed by Charles Newell.
TARTUFFE by Molière. Translated by Richard Wilbur. Directed by Daniel Fish.

1995-1996
CÉLIMINE AND THE CARDINAL by Jacques Rampal. Translated by Ranjit Bolt. Directed by Charles Newell.
ON THE VERGE by Eric Overmyer. Directed by Susan B. Booth.
KING HENRY IV: THE SHADOW OF SUCCESSION by William Shakespeare. Adapted by David Bevington and Charles Newell. Directed by Charles Newell.
THE PLAY'S THE THING by Ferenc Molnar & P. G. Wodehouse. Directed by László Marton.
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE by Pièrre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais. Translated and adapted by Gilbert Pastureau and Anne Wakefield. Directed by Charles Newell.

1994-1995
ONCE IN A LIFETIME by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman. Directed by Charles Newell.
MISS JULIE by August Strindberg. Directed by Carmen Roman.
SLEUTH by Anthony Shaffer. Directed by Gordon Reinhart.
THE MISANTHROPE by Molière. Translated by Richard Wilbur. Directed by Charles Newell.
TRAVESTIES by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Charles Newell.

1993-1994
THE TRIUMPH OF LOVE by Pièrre Carlet de Chamberlain de Marivaux. Directed by Charles Newell.
CLOUD NINE by Caryl Churchill. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
A DELICATE BALANCE by Edward Albee. Directed by Terry McCabe.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
FRIDA: THE LAST PORTRAIT by Donna Blue Lachman. Directed by Mary Zimmerman.

1992-1993
OTHELLO by William Shakespeare. Directed by Eric Simonson.
THE HOUSE OF BLUE LEAVES by John Guare. Directed by Philip Killian.
THE MYSTERY CYCLE: THE CREATION and THE PASSION. Adapted by Bernard Sahlins. Directed by Nicholas Rudall and Bernard Sahlins.
ELECTRA by Sophocles. Adapted by Nicholas Rudall. Directed by Mikhail Mokeiev.
PANTOMIME by Derek Walcott. Directed by Jonathan Wilson.

1991-1992
THE LION AND THE JEWEL by Wole Soyinka.
CANDIDE by Voltaire. Music by Leonard Bernstein. Directed by Travis L. Stockley.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE by William Shakespeare. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
FROM THE SECOND CITY. Directed by Bernard Sahlins.
THE MYSTERY CYCLE: THE CREATION Adapted by Bernard Sahlins. Directed by Nicholas Rudall and Bernard Sahlins.
THE GIGLI CONCERT by Thomas Murphy. Directed by William Woodman.
COMEDIANS by Trevor Griffiths & Aaron Freeman. Directed by Barney Simon.

1990-1991
THE PEACE OF BREST-LITOVSK by Mikhail Shatrov. Produced by the Vakhtangov Theatre, Moscow. Sponsored by Court Theatre.
CANDIDA by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
BRIEF LIVES by Patrick Garland. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW by Joe Orton. Directed by Jacques Cartier.
FUENTE OVEJUNA by Lope de Vega. Translated by Adrian Mitchell. Directed by Richard E.T. White.
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE by Bertolt Brecht. Directed by Jeff Steitzer.

1989-1990
ZEAMI by Masakazu Yamazaki. Directed by Toshifume Sueki. Produced at the University of Chicago's Mandel Hall by the Institute of Dramatic Arts, Tokyo. Sponsored by Court Theatre.
SERIOUS MONEY by Caryl Churchill & Ian Drury. Directed by Terry McCabe.
THE PARADISE HOTEL by Georges Faydeau. Adapted by Nicholas Rudall. Directed by Kyle Donnelly.
GHOSTS by Henrik Isben. Directed by Bernard Hopkins.
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA by John Gay & John Christopher Pepusch. Directed by Richard Russell Ramos.
A CHORUS OF DISAPPROVAL by Alan Ayckbourn. Directed by Richard Russell Ramos.

1988-1989
DOCTOR FAUSTUS by Christopher Marlowe. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
THE AMERICAN CLOCK by Studs Terkel and Arthur Miller. Directed by Richard Russell Ramos.
PYGMALION by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Kyle Donnelly.
HAPPY END by Dorothy Lane. Adapted by Bertolt Brecht and Michael Feingolt. Music by Kurt Weill. Directed by Linda Brovsky.
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL by William Shakespeare. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.

1987-1988
WOYZECK by Georg Brüchner. Directed and adapted by Nicholas Rudall.
SHE STOPS TO CONQUER by Oliver Goldsmith. Directed by James Bohnen.
THE GLASS MENAGERIE by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
MACBETH by Williams Shakespeare. Directed by Nicholas Pennell.
PLAYBOY OF THE WEST INDIES by J.M. Synge & Mustafa Matura. Directed by Nicholas Kent.

1986-1987
ORESTEIA by Aeschylus. Adapted by David Grene and Wendy O'Flaherty. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
TARTUFFE by Molière. Translated by Richard Wilbur. Directed by David Frank.
ANGEL STREET by Patrick Hamilton. Directed by David Darlow.
JUMPERS by Tom Stoppard. Directed by Nick Faust.
PRIVATE LIVES by Noël Coward. Directed by Nicholas Kent.

1985-1986
HEARTBREAK HOUSE by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
THE RIVALS by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Directed by Maria Aitken.
THE MASTER BUILDER by Henrik Isben. Adapted by Nicholas Rudall. Directed by Donald W. Ilke.
THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING by Christopher Fry. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
UNCLE VANYA by Anton Chekhov. Directed by Munson Hicks.

1984-1985
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
THE MISANTHROPE by Molière. Translated by Richard Wilbur. Directed by Munson Hicks.
THE PHILANTHROPIST by Christopher Hampton. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
ARMS AND THE MAN by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY by Harold Pinter. Directed by Susan Dafoe.
EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOR by Tom Stoppard and Andre Previn. Directed by Michael Maggio.

1983-1984
HAY FEVER by Noël Coward. Directed by Susan Dafoe.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
HEDDA GABLER by Henrik Isben. Translated by Edmund Grosse and William Archer. Adapted by Nicholas Rudall. Directed by Susan Dafoe.
MISALLIANCE by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O'Neiill. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.

1982-1983
AN ITILIAN STRAW HAT by Eugene Labiche. Adapted by Susan Wienacht. Directed by Richard S. Kordos.
YOU NEVER CAN TELL by George Bernard Shaw. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
UNDER MILK WOOD by Dylan Thomas. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
ENDGAME by Samuel Beckett. Directed by Michael Maggio.
ANTIGONE by Sophocles. Translated by David Grene and Wendy O'Flaherty. Directed by Timur Djordjadze.
LOOT by Joe Orton. Directed by Pauline Brailsford.

1981-1982
THE MISER by Molière. Translated by Diane Rudall. Directed by James O'Reilly.
THE COMEDY OF ERRORS by William Shakespeare. Directed by Richard E. Hughes.
FASHION by Anna Cora Mowatt. Directed by James O'Reilly.
THE SEAGULL by Anton Chehkov. Translated by Anne Vaughan. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
THE ENTERTAINER by John Osborne. Directed by Diane and Nicholas Rudall.
THE LOVER by Harold Pinter.
DOING A GOOD ONE FOR THE RED MAN by Mark Medoff.
SOLITAIRE, A MAN ALONE IN THOUGHT by Steven Ivcich.
SAMUEL PEPYS: A ONE-MAN SHOW by Charles H. Good.
SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER by Tennessee Williams.
THE GUARDSMAN by Ferenc Molnár. Translated by Grace I. Colbront and Hans Bartsch. Adapted by Philip Moeller. Directed by Tom Mula.
THE FIRST NIGHT OF PYGMALION by Richard Huggett. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
REUNION by David Mamet.
HELLO OUT THERE by William Saroyan.
ALL'S FAIR (A Blackfriars' Musical) by John Podhoretz.
THE UNSEEN HAND by Sam Shepard.
OUT AT SEA by Slawomir Mrozek.

1980-1981
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL by William Shakespeare. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.
THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS by Carlos Goldini. Translated by Anne Vaughan. Directed by Robert Skloot.
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST by William Shakespeare. Directed by James O'Reilly.
MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION by George Bernard Shaw.
A DOLL'S HOUSE by Henrik Isben.
JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK by Sean O'Casey. Directed by James O'Reilly.
MANDRAGOLA by Machiavelli. Directed by Steve Schroer.
NO EXIT by Jean-Paul Sartre. Directed by Ellen Martin.
THE BICYCLE RIDERS by Anna Marie Barlow. Directed by Catherine Wiley.
MISS JULIE by August Strindberg. Directed by Howard Kaplan.

1979-1980
HAMLET by William Shakespeare.
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD by Tom Stoppard.
THE WAY O THE WORLD by William Congreve.
EXIT THE KING by Eugène Ionesco.
A DAY IN THE DEATH OF JOE EGG by Peter Nichols.

1978-1979
MACBETH by William Shakespeare.
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER by Oliver Goldsmith.
THE WINTER'S TALE by William Shakespeare.
THE BIRTHDAY PARTY by Harold Pinter. Directed by Nicholas Rudall and Peter Syversten.
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU by Moss Hart & George S. Kaufman. Directed by Ellen Martin.
ANTIGONE adapted by Jean Anouilh. Directed by Diane Rudall.
MEASURE FOR MEASURE by William Shakespeare. Directed by Nicholas Rudall.

1977-1978
THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare.
HOUSE OF BERNARDA ALBA by Federico Garcia Lorca.
THESMOPHORIAZOUSAE by Aristophanes.
CANDIDE by Voltaire. Music by Leonard Bernstein.
BUTLEY by Simon Gray.
THÉÂTRE DE LA FOIRE.
YET WHAT IS LOVE by the Company.
SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER by Oliver Goldsmith.

1976
ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare.
SUMMER AND SMOKE by Tennessee Williams.
THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA by William Shakespeare.

1975
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde.
THE FATHER by August Strindberg.
THE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF by Molière.
WAITING FOR GODOT by Samuel Beckett.
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING by William Shakespeare.

1974
THE CARETAKER by Harold Pinter.
OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR by Joan Littlewood.
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE by Pièrre de Beaumarchais.
RASHOMON by Kanin, Fay and Michael.
TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL by William Shakespeare.

1973
UBU ROI by Alfred Jerry.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare.
TANGO by Sawomir Mrozek.
MEDEA by Euripides.

1972
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD by Tom Stoppard.
THE RIVALS by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
ARMS AND THE MAN by George Bernard Shaw.
TARTUFFE by Molière.

1971
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW by William Shakespeare.
LYSISTRATA by Aristophanes.
THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller.

1970
HENRY IV, PART II by William Shakespeare.
UNDER MILK WOOD by Dylan Thomas.
THE THREEPENNY OPERA by Bertolt Brecht. Music by Kurt Weill.

1969
THE COUNTRY WIFE by William Wycherley.
ANDROCLES AND THE LION by George Bernard Shaw.
RICHARD III by William Shakespeare.

1968
AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare.
GALILEO by Bertolt Brecht.
'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE by John Ford.

1967
MACBETH by William Shakespeare.
THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE by Bertolt Brecht.
THE MISER by Molière.

1966
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR by William Shakespeare.
TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL by William Shakespeare.
SAINT JOAN by George Bernard Shaw.

1965
VOLPONE by Ben Johnson.
THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING by Christopher Fry.
JULIUS CAESER by William Shakespeare.

1964
ROMEO AND JULIET by William Shakespeare.
THE TEMPEST by William Shakespeare.
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW by William Shakespeare.

1963
KING LEAR by William Shakespeare.
THE CONFOUNDED HUSBAND by Molière.
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM by William Shakespeare.

1962
PANTAGLAIZE by Michel de Ghelderode.
THE DYBBUK by S. Ansky.
THE KNIGHT OF THE BURNING PESTLE by Beaumont and Fletcher.

1961
HENRY IV, PART I by William Shakespeare.
ULYSSES IN NIGHT-TOWN by James Joyce.
SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR by Luigi Pirandello.

1960
OEDIPUS REX by Sophocles.
SCAPIN THE SCOUNDREL by Molière.
HENRY VIII by William Shakespeare.

1959
FRANCESCA DA RIMINI by Boker.
LOVE FOR LOVE by William Congreve.
OTHELLO by William Shakespeare.

1958
THE CENCI by Shelley.
THE IMAGINARY INVALID by Molière.
CORIOLANUS by William Shakespeare.

1957
DOCTOR FAUSTUS by Christopher Marlowe.
THE ALCHEMIST by Ben Johnson.
SALOME by Oscar Wilde.

1956
THE MAN WHO MARRIED A DUMB WIFE by Anatole France.
THE TROJAN WOMEN by Euripides.
TWELFTH NIGHT, OR WHAT YOU WILL by William Shakespeare.

1955
THE AFFECTED YOUNG LADIES by Molière.
THE FORCES MARRIAGE by Molière.
THE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF by Molière.

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